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Open Educational Resources (Aurora CD)

Jessica Everton, MITE/NROC; Bruce Friend, SAS Curriculum Pathways; Philip Lacey, Niles Township Schools, IL; Gary Lopez, MITE/NROC; Terri Rowenhorst, MITE/NROC, Mary Schlegelmilch, Omaha Public Schools; and David Wiley, Brigham Young University

Learn more about the Open Educational Resource movement and what it means to you. Discover how adaptable, affordable, high-quality OER can enhance blended or online learning environments. This workshop will explore sources for OER; considerations in the adoption, adaptation and creation of open and sharable content; and examples from educators using OER to support institutional initiatives and enrich individual classroom instruction.
The international OER movement aims to:
  • benefit society by increasing access to quality educational resources at little or no cost to anyone seeking to learn;
  • offer efficiencies through sharing educational resources;
  • create more transparency among learning institutions; and
  • encourage creative adaptation: reuse, remix, share.

Discover how you can be a part of it!

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Introductory Activity
OER Workshop Attendees.xlsx

  • What do you know?
    • We know there are resources available
    • We know a little about Creative Commons
  • What do you want to know?
    • How do we easily find materials?
    • How do we understand the quality of what is out there?
    • Specifically looking for K-6 (someone recommended: freereading.net) and H.S. resources (electives like music, health, History, etc.)
    • Would like to know more about copyright issues
    • Credit recovery options (for assessment and outcomes based)
    • Techniques used to create online materials / how materials are presented
    • Common Core
KWL Chart wiki.doc


Overview of OER (David) -- slides at: http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent/vss-2010-oer-101-theory-and-practice
OER, fully specified:
  • Has to be free
  • 4R permissions (Reuse, Revise, Remix, Redistribute)
  • 4Rs Technically Enabled (technology used with these materials doesn't prevent you from exercising your rights under the 4R permissions)
Creative Commons offers and easy to use 4R's license.

Examples:

Exemplary OER for K12 (See handout)
OER Handout_VSS Workshop 2010.doc

Considerations for Selection & Use
Tour of Exemplary Resources
What are you looking for in an OER?
  • Curricular
  • Complete
  • High quality
  • Easy to use
  • Teaching tool

NROC (www.nroc.org) is unique:
  • Curricular content for BOTH higher ed & H.S.
  • Flexible learning structure
  • Customizable
  • Correlated to popular textbooks
  • Classroom and online teaching tools


How can we develop online courses in a cost effective way?
Where do I get expertise to build rich materials?
Often classroom teachers are put in charge of creating online courses, which is unfair to them.
Curriculum Pathways is a great way to help develop materials. Curriculum Pathways provides content designed for:
  • English,
  • Social Studies,
  • Science,
  • Math,
  • Spanish
Assessments are included throughout the content.
To access the material you would link to it from your LMS. Materials require student interaction.


Small Group Activity:
· Discuss experiences related to selecting OER…share feedback on resources, pros and cons
· Exploration: Identify a curricular need, find a possible resource and evaluate its potential

Practical Applications in K12
  • Omaha Public Schools (Mary)
Credit recovery thorough blended learning
  • Had to align Credit Recovery courses with district standards and assessments (they are a standards-based district)
  • Students work individually with assistance from instructor as needed
  • Teachers facilitate the recovery of credits
  • Approaches: Summer School, Transition Rooms, Independent Study, Adult H.S.
  • Process: started transition from an online tutorial system to customized online system in June, 2006. Courses were developed & piloted throughout 2006-07 school year.
  • They used OER & online textbook resources to customize assignments. (they pull in www.NROC.org content this way)
  • Created a repository for all teachers
  • Created Master Courses (these courses cover the basic information you need to know for credit recovery, then teachers can add to them as needed)

  • Omaha will be adopting OER CK-12 textbooks in some areas soon.
  • Who creates their master courses? The curriculum supervisor for each content area identified their most knowledgeable person in the subject. Then Mary provided them with the technology and put them through an instructional design course online. This was extremely important part of building their master courses.

  • Niles Township (Phil)
Gave a hands on look at how his district is using OER by showing what they are doing through Moodle.
  • Uses NROC and creates full courses that teacher’s can use and rearrange as they want.
  • Gave a demo of a Biology course that an instructor of his built. She used her own materials and then incorporated the NROC materials.
A powerful use of OER resources:


  • Discussion of Other Use Cases

  • Small Group Activity:
    · What practical applications can you imagine at your institutions?
    · What questions come out of this “imagination” activity? (technical, curricular, admin) – for further discussion

    Parking Lot for Topics for Final Panel/Discussion

    Summary Discussion: Top Opportunities and Challenges for OER

    • What have you learned today?